Risk Index is a program developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation ... revised index is the result of the multiyear On-Field Ohio project led by Elizabeth (Libby) Dayton, ... University. The index has significant water quality implications statewide, considering that misapplied ...

mild bloom in 2016. The bloom is expected to measure 6 on the severity index, but could range between ... The severity index is based on a bloom’s biomass — the amount of its harmful algae — over a sustained ...